The Sun. — London, England, 1826-12-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The city article will apprize our readers of the va riety of reports by which the great centre of money speculation was agitated during the whole of Saturday,. and of the falsehood an well of those which had raised the public funds, as of those by which, in a subse quent part - of the day, they were lowered. With re gard to the assurances of a pacific declaration from M. Villele, and of his formal approval of the decided policy of Great Britain, having reached this country, we have reason to believe, that down'to a late hour on Saturday night no communication from that Mini 'titer had reached any official quarter here. That there arc many circuinstances, immediate and "emote, well calculated to occupy the full attention of the French ftiovernment, and thence to retard the announcement of a final resolution upon the serious alternative pre sented to it by the Royal Message to Parliament, is obvious from the least consideration of the possible results of indefinite military movements between Spain and Portugal, and of the extrenrities to which Ferdi nand and the cause of despotism may be driven : but so strong are the inducements to .remain at peace on the part of the House of Bourbon, that we feel few, if ally, doubts respecting its uninterrupted continuance, in so far as that much-desired consummation can de- - pend upon the obvious interests of the French House of Bourbon, and on the present wishes of its ablest and most discreet advisers. The news from Oporto appears to be More favourable than from the impres mons made in the city on Friday last could have been anticipated. The authorities of Oporto had made ar iangements for a vigorous resistance at the bridge over the Tamega, the only pass by which Oporto could be approached from the north-eastward, and a detach ment of Portuguese troops had arrived in steam-ves sels from Lisbon. The fears entertained for the lick lity of the army, were, it is said, subsiding ; and Lord Beresford, it was rumoured, had, on his own respon sibility, sent for a body of British troops fiom.Gihral tar. But it is fair to say, that this last piece of intel ligence does not - rest upon authority which would con vince us at once of its truth. Lord Beresford might, on his own responsibility, tend for troops—but would the Governor of that fortress be, of necessity, justified in complying with such a requisition ? Lord Bares lord was not his commanding officer ; nor has the gar rison of Gibraltar been for a long time past so much more than adequate to the bare discharge of those duties which are indispensable to the actual security of the place, as to render it sq/e, while 11,000 or 12,000 French soldiers are posted in its immediate neighbourhood, to reduce the British force by even a single regiment. Whether, at the same time, the fact may not be . as described, we cannot take upon us to determine. The last news from Oporto is of the even mg of the 7th. The report then current was, that the 'rebels under the Marquis de Chaves had been beaten and driven back.-71/nes. . CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. THE MONEY MARKET.- -The city version of the events which have produced the favourable re-action in the Stock Market is as follows, though it would not be prudent, in such u.crisis as this, to believe all that is circulated in this quarter. The object, of course, is to show, that in a \which has occurred lately; France and England are per. • reedy syreed.• Mr. Ca.ming then, it is said, communicated to the Frenth Ambassador, on Saturday last, a copy of the • KiteesMesisge to ,Parliameet, delivered on Monday, and of the intention to send troops to Portugal. This was pent off on Seturday by a courier, sod the report is, founded on the Paris letters, that wheircommuniveted to M. de Villele, that Minister expressed himself highly satisfied at what had eccorred, as.the only event that could secure the peace of doe Peninsula, and that the proceeding had his entire con curience with that of the King, his . master. The letters 'from Paris are said also to confirm the statement, that ; the King of France had written to Ferdinand itn autograph letter, threatening the immediate recall of the French troops, if he interfered in any manner with the PortugUese rebels. Assurances of a pacific nature have also, it is said, been received from M. de Villele at the Foreign-oflice, subsequeutly to the arrival of the message, with the de , bates which followed it. Mr. Canning, it is added, has iu ,Onsequence of the above, despatched a nwssenger to Mu .drid, with a firm remonstrance to the Spanish, Govern ' Meta, concluding with u categorical demand of the acknow ledgment within 21 hours of the present form of Govern ment in Portugal, at the end of which time, if not coin plied with, the English Ambassador is ordered to leave Agedrid. These are the . principal points on which the rake -party depend, and to the circulation of them on Change during yesterday and this morning, is to be as : , (31 ed the rise of the funds from 77i, the lowest price of yesterday, to 801, at which Consols were currently sold this morning. That construction of the real posture of affairs seems to have been borne partly by the state of the French Funds on .Thursday, when the 3 per Cents, , left off • ut 67, 75., full 2 per cent. higher than they were on the ,tirrival of the King's Message from London.—lbid. The threat in an Evening Paper with respect to . General 'Quiroga was, we think, ill judged. In our opinion, if that General, or General Mina, or any other Ex-Spanish General with followeri, were to land il,Opain, they would be attacked by the French, and if they were beaten, as it is probable they would, the French - would avail themselves of a pretence ac count of such attack—march their forces into Pont'. gal, and take possession of it as they did of Spain, except we could send a sufficient force to prevent them. But the question would be, could we send a sufficient ~ fbrce ? 'lt is well known that in England we have • 'only 20,000 men altogether, and in Ireland 25,000, *high latter it is said are barely sufficient to keep the discontented in order. What number of troops the French have iti•Spain does not appear. But we well know that France has upon the whole a very large disposable force. We saw how easily she poured 50,000 tfimm into Spain, and how easily she took . . possession 0 Slum, in spite of the bravery of Generals Mina, Qui T roga, Rie go , an d ot h er C onstitut i ona l Ge nerals. etltink that the Enslish Government could not do a more dangerous dung than to give secret enco uragement to the Spanish Refugees in this coun try in any attempts the latter might Make on Spain. Besides, it is beneath the dignity of E ng l an d to b u ild . anyliopes on the employment of the proscribed ? We. by no means liked that part of Mr.'C ii i m i ti e s speech, any more than we did his let out respecting Sir Charles Stuart and the Constitution the latter took in pocket ,with him from Brazil to Lisbon. It is Much this Constitution does not cost us sm mou e sum of money—it may endanger the Debt it self. But what business had Sir Charles to busy him., self respecting a Constitution ? When 'the Spaniards had their COnstitution and Cortes, they welt n ot a vdtit inure, friendly towards England than Ferdinand And:his Priests 'now are. In truth, had the Spanish Coats and Constitution lasted, South America would now have been under the dominion of Spain.-Morn tfrrald.' The fears of the English in Oporto, and the baste vvith which all who can, are preparing to depart from Portugal .with their most valuable effects, afford but too strong a proof of the little reliance to be placed on the Ntinlation of that country at the present moment. MI . *litters : agree in stating, that the Priesthood are in opposition to the existing order of things ; and know- .ng this, the writer, frankly own that little reliance - is ,o be placed on the KOfessions of the`piople of zeal .n defence of the Constitution. How happens it that the Priests, who once idolised the luglisb, are now so decidedly opposed to them ? Have the Priests changed their policy . ? 0 no. From the commencement of the Revolutionary War, down to a comparatively re cent' date, the English were adored by all the partizans of abuses, all the patrons pi superstition, in every country. hi Spain, Portugal, and Italy, the Priests were attached to the English, because they looked on the English as the supporters of the Inquisition, and in consideration of their Services in the good cause they willingly pardoned their heresy. Every pious Ca tholic was taught to look on the English as the great supporters of the Altar and the Throne. The en lightened and respectable classes in Italy were scanda lized at the sight of English Ministers interesting then selves in the miracles of St. Januarius at Naples, or taking part in processions in honour of the Virgin in Tuicany. When the virtuous Bishop of Pistoia, the Ecclesiastical Refdriner under the • great Leopold, was insulted by superstitious mobs, English Ministers did not disdain to take a part in these mobs. " The insurrection of Arezzo, says • Potter (whose assertions rest on abundant evidence), " concentrated all the scattered efforts, and drew all eyes towards it. . Religious enthusiasm led the re volters to declare. their Madonna, believed miraculous for somewhat more than three years, Generalissimo of the armed hordes hich they sent in pursuit of the flying RepUblicans, to pillage and slaughter them with a sate conscience. The image of the Virgin became the standard of rebellion, murder, and , brigandage.— Ricci, who saw only in this event the triumph of igno rance, of superstition, with all its excesses, and the abuses as anti-religious as anti-social rooted out by Leopold, sighed at the prospect of ouccesses which now appeared but WO certain. Scarcely had the French withdrawn into the States of Genoa, when the Aretins marched on Florence. These bands of un natural men,' says the Abbe X. reinforced by smug glers.aiid malefactors of every kind, guided by Monks and Priests, and defiled by homicides, rapines, and all sorts of crimes, entered that capital on the 7th July, 1799, under the standards of Madonna of Arezzo, each of the Aretins, carrying that image as a distinc tive sign, either hung to his dress, or attached to his hat inlieu of a cockade. Even the English Minister (Windham) and the pretended General Mari (his mistress), who accompanied him,- were decorated in this manner with the order of the Madonna. What a prostitution—what an abuse of religion !' " In those days the Pope and the. Monks clung to the English as the great prop of "superstition. When :'we ' en tered the Peninsula, our good deeds in Italy had gone. before us, and we were still looked to as the supporters of he Altar and the Throne. Nay, the Battle of Waterloo did not dissolve the connection between our old friends, the Monks, and us. So long es it was uncertain whether the family placed by the Battle of Waterloo on the Throne of France would be able to-support- itself, the English Govern ment still prudently cultivated the friendship of' the Monks. It is but the other year that the Courier in veighed with great bitterness against the attempt of the Portuguese Cortea to 'render the Ecclesiastical Esta blishment of their coimtty somewhat more Wasonant the a iirit of Christtaility, and we re'Metriber that very vaper si?Otte of the loatttution us a ‘renerable,to stitution. But the subjugation of Italy by ..A.uOria, and the occupation of Spain by France, afforded a proof that legitimacy and superstition 'could now dis pense with the.support of England. The English be gan to suspect that they had overshot the mark; and the Priests, on the other hand, finding a more natural ally in the French Government, began to open their eyes to the defects of their old allies, the English. During their own struggles for existence, as it were, they had little time to think 'of the treatment of the Irish Catholics by the English; but now, from one end of- Catholic Europe to the other, this treatment has been a constant theme of discussion. The Eng lish are now every where held up by the Priests to the people, not merely as heretics, but as persecutors and oppressors of their fellow4eligionists. - We shall now find our absurd treatment of the- Catholics of Ireland operate in two ways to our disadvantage. In the that place, it makes every priest in the Petun :oda an enemy of the side we espouse ; and the mul titude, through the agency of the priests.., In, the next place, the Apostolical 'party know, that one-third of the population of these Islands, and that not the least warlike, are necessarily in their interest. With respect to the threat held out by Mr. Canning, the time, :is we have already more than once said, is gone by for using such a threat with effect. Indeed, we are satisfied that such a threat would never have been Made, had the least apprehension with respect to the stability of the French Government existed. We do most conscientiously believe that' the English Aristo cracy, however much they may coquette it, now that they think they may do so with safety, consider them selves as 'much interested in the stability of the Bour bons, as the Bourbons themselves are. The Aposto, Heal party in France know, therefore, that even if we had the power, we would religiously avoid' any thing 'calculated to promote it revolution in France. - They know that we are aware that there is an Aristocracy' in France worth talking of; that if a French Minister were to make such a speech, in one of the Chambers, as Lord Palmerston did in the House of Commons the other day, that the army should be almost exclu sively officered by the nobility and higher gentry, he would be assailed by one cry of indignationand that therefore there is nothing so much to be dreaded in this country as the throwing such a royal democracy into a state of commotion. But should we be invol ved in a war with Franee,," what an ally have not the French ill Ireland ! Well do the -French Ministers know their strength and our weakness, in that country. The first intelligence of his Majesty's sues , sage has been received by the Catholics in a way that 'we should think must carry alarm to the minds of the most bigotted of the opponents of Emend ,pation. a War, my - countrymen (said Mr. Shiell), ---war has been announced (loud and , continued cheers!) This event, of which intelligence has been Lreceived within this hour, and which will make the heart of every man in Ireland leap within him. (Loud vheem) 'Such is the opening of Mr. Sheill's•Speeeh at the INTeeting of the Catholic Association, on Wednes day last. One , third of our fellow-subjects, and that third the , 111 °biwarlike are unable to contain their joyat the intelligen ce f the country being about to embark in a fresh war. They • rej• oice at the prospect of war, not because they think the sacrifices and burdens it must oc casion be more than compensated by the success with which it will be carried on, but because it )Vill en able them to extort that from our fe a rs which they could not obtain from our justice—because they see that the condition of our escaping disaster is to submit to a humiliatin&mortificatiep, to pay the penalty, once more - of our stupid obstinacy. 7.. ., I o w n , in t h e gpirit of discontented fearleAness, ‘ that I rejoice at • (Cheers.) -- Alas'! to to what miserable condition are we reduced ; and how vainful it -is to think that one third .of the subjects of this great Empire, and seven millions of the Irish people,,are so far sundered from: the State, and alienated front their natural and legiti mate duty, that they cannot help (for we cannot help it) feeling a sentiment of disastrous and desperate ex ultation; in whatever portends calamity, and is omi nous of ill. Ido confess that I regard it as a sort of reproach to us, that we should derive a fero cious joy .from events which will boast so much of human life, and which will be followed with so much woe and misery for their train." Mr. O'Connell, who had been engaged in one of the, Courts during Mr. Shiell's speed), entered soon afterwards, and spoke in the same tone: " 1 nelier, in all my life," he said, " rose with such pleasure to speak in a Catholic assembly. England is at war — (Cheers). Let her do . without Ireland if she dare" —(tremendous cheers). chances of war could not . make us worse. I would ask Goulburn if a foreign foe were to invade this country and desolate the land What could it do ? It might create unjust distinctions and embitter social life—it might establish a faction to insult and trample On the people—it might send a famine in the stead of plenty, and spread disgrace and death round the land. But, good God ! - how could we he worse than we are at present ; If he believes the people of Ireland to be interested in the contest; I tell him lie is wrong." Are Mr. Shiell and Mr. O'Connell faithful interpreters of the sentiments of the Catholics of Ireland ? We be lieve they are. When we quote these sentiments and state this, all further observation becomes unnecessa ry. We are sending &troops to the Peninsula, to fight, we fear, against the great body of the people of Portugal. In that case, even if France remain a spec tator for a time, we must continue our embarkations to keep down the Portuguese ; for having engaged in the contest, .our honour is involved in the issue. In the mean time Ireland is proelaimine , to E uro p e , we dread no enemy so much as the people .to whom we are obliged at present to submit. And do we think the French will not know the import of this language or will not know the use which may be made of it ? Strange infatuation, to leave this act of justice unper formed till a time when, whichever way we decide, we are disgraced!—Morning Chronicle. We received last night the Paris Papers of Friday, and the . Etoile dated Saturday. Their contents are of considerable interest, as far as relates to Spain and Portugal. They contain, among other things, the capitulation of Braganza to the rebels, under the com mand of the. Marquis de Chaves. We say the Rebels, for it is a mockery and a perversion of language to de signate them, as the ultra Paris Papers do, by the term of Royalists. Royalists, forsooth ! Men who are arrayed in open insurrection against the throne, against the laws, and against the Constitution ! Iraitors, who are desolating their country by making it the theatre of civil war ! Worse than traitors, for they have shown by their excesses, that they are itui mated by more than the vindictive and merciless . spirit which might he supposed to exist in the bo soms of foreign enemies, whose business it is to shed blood upon command, with no privilege to in quire why they are ordered to cut the throats of their Liellaw-creatures: But here is a band of lawless in choose to tell their - King, you shall' nut make us free•'—you ah4l not give tie virtered liberties— apd they are to be called Royalists ! it ia true they have raise&the standard of rebellion, in the name of a phantom King, whom they have proclaimed—Don Miguel V.— a King:v.lmm Kings disclaim I A Monarch, who, if he ascend the Throne, which treason would erect • fur him, must wade knee-deep in blood—the blood of his countrymen—before he can seat lilinself upon it. We have nothing to do, in this view of the case, with the question of which' is the stronger party in Portugal— ahe friends of the Chatter—o r i t s foes. It is only be cause we know the importance ofnames, that we enter our protest thus early, against an abuse of words which may lead to a much more serious abuse of things. These men, who call themselves, or who are called by others, Royalists, are the open and avowed enemies of their King ; and as such, language has but one term for them ; they are rebels ! II appears by. advices from Madrid, of the 4th inst., contained in the Etoile, that the Spanish Government feels, or affects to feel, alarm at the progress of event& The fear, if _it exist, will have salutary consequences, we trust, by causing the immediate suspension, and ultimate cessation, of those measures which have driven this country to. the threshold oft(war. The remonstrances of Mr. Lamb, our Am bassador to the Court of Spain, become every day more menacing, it is said, and hence the anxiety to ar rest the mischief which was in progress. What will Ferdinand, what will his Ministers, say, when they hear that England has not confined herself to re monstrances ? That her' soldiers and her fleets are already on their way, to assert the faith of treaties, the independence of Nations ? They have prepared for themselves a bitter cup of humiliation. England has but to speak, in ' the loud voice of , war, and Spain, abject and trembling, like a recreant bully, who fears no danger, because he sees none; must shrink before her. We are reluctant to believe one part of these accounts. When the Rebels entered Bragania' , we are told, " they sought chiefly after the English. One of them had the misfortune to be taken, and was dragged alive, through the streets, until he expired; under the most cruel torment's." We would fain hope, this' is mere invention. It' it be not—if, on the con trary; these fanatical rebels single out for refined tor tures, unoffending British subjects, only because the name of an Englishman is identified, (and long may it be 'so !) with all that is free and liberal, and high-miuded, a just but terrible retribution will be dealt out to them. Injuries like these, &toil upon national honour,' will convert a mea sure of precaution, intended to prevent war, into active hostilities, for the vindication of British rights. The tone .of the Journal des Debats is warlike ; hut this matters not. What else could be expected frdm the-ultra organ of ultra politics ? The policy of the French Cabinet, however," is pacific ; the desire for peace has been sincerely expressed the French Monarch. For *h at legitiinate ollects, indeed, Could France go to war ? To. support Spain against. land ?—to enable Ferdinand, the most imbecile hlip narch that ever swayed a sceptre, to uphold th e c ause • of rebellion against the l aw f u l a uthority of the,' throne? Is France the L'‘'untry who can venture to teach s o dangerous a lesson'? France, who, but four • yeah; since, took her instructions from the Congress at Ve rona, and drew, the aword for thrones 'againit subjects in Spain) at the hazard of provoking England ink the contest ? Is thi s sam e France now prepared to turn round and draw the sword with equal facility for subjects against thrones ? lii this dilemma she 'Stands, and we confess we are not among those who can easily believe that they who ..govern het —would be rash enough to plunge into a war, for the inconsistent ob- ject . of attempting to curb the exereise of royal prero gative in Portugal. A nobler and a better course lies .before her. Charkii X. may repay the debt of grati tude he owes to Europe, whose combined armies con quered for him and his family the throne on which he now sits, by using his recovered power to assert the authority of the throne of Portugal. Twenty years of exile and adversity have been suffered m vain, if they have not taught him, above all living Monarchs, the dan • ger of encouraging rebellion. It would be a short sighted policy indeed, in a question like the present ; looking to the part which France has already played in Spain, looking to her obvious interests at home, and to the opportunity that presents itself of making com mon cause with England in a just and honourable cause, if she were to discard all these considerations, and, from feelings of unworthy jealousy, or in the wan tonness of military ambition, cast her sword into the scale of popular insurrection. We do not believe her thoughts turn that way ; but; if they do, it were well she paused for a moment, to calculate the tremendous perils that may hang upon her decision.—New Times. WINTER ASSIZES. CHELMSFORD, Dec. 15. The winter gaol delivery for this county ended this morning. The only capital convict left for execution was Thomas Kinger, for uttering a forged check with intent to defraud Thomas Linsell. John Goodey, who was convicted of manslaughter, in killing a young man named iatnes Owers, at Great Coggeshall, on the 21st of October last, was sentenced to six months' itupritionment and hard labour in the House of Correction. Jo/in Frost, a lad only 17 years of age, was indicted for vio lating the person of Sarah Wilkinson, a widow woman, aged 70, at Ugley, in this county. • The Jury, upon the evidence adduced, found the prisoner guilty, and sentence of death was recorded. LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. British Plantation Sugar, about 400 hhds. have been sold, for which full prices were obtained, and in some in stances rather more than last week's quotations. In East India and Foreign Sugar nothing has been done. A parcel of Demerara Molasses has been sold at 28s. 6d. per cwt. off the quay. Coffee is rather better : 110 tees. and 370 bags Demerara brought forward by auction, well: nearly all sold at an advance of Is. to 2s. per cwt. on the clean qualities. Nothing done in Foreign Coffee. Cocoa and Pimento dull. A small parcel of Barbadoes Ginger has been sold at 545. per cwt. The Rum market remains firm ; the sales are confined to small lots of Jamaica, common flavour, at 3s. per gallon fur 15 to 16 0. P. COTTON.-The sales amount to 19,950 bags, arid the prices of most descriptions have advanced id. to }d. per lb. The sales consist of, 5,640 Bowed, ordinary to fair, 6/d. a 7d.; good fair to good, 7/(1. a lid. ; 2,610 Orleans 6/d. a Bfd. ; 3,000 Mobile and Alabama 61d. a 7P. ; 20 Sea Island at 13d.; 130 Stained ditto 6/d. a 8/d.; 500 Per nambuco at 10d. a 101 d. ; 1,400 Maranham at 8/d. a 90.; 630 Bahia at 8/d. a 9d.; 3,160 Egyptian 7d. a 81d.; 100 Demerara at Bd. a 10d.; 20 Barbadoes at 6id. a 7d.; 100 West India at NI a 8/d.; 30 Laguira at 6id.; 10 Bour bon at Old.; 480 Surat at sid. a 61d.; 120 Bengal at sd. n 51(.1. About 1,000 bags American and Egyptian have been taken ou speculation, and 600 Brazil for export. The arrivals are 7,399 bags; 400 bags Sea Island are declared for auction on the 22d inst. The demand for Tobacco has again been limited, with out any alteration in prices. In Rice the sales have been only about 70 tees. of Carolina at 20s. to 235., and 170 bags East India at 18s. per cwt. Imported into Liverpool from the 9th to the lath Decem ber, 1826, inclusive by 2 vessels from Demerara, 3 New York, 1 Pitifullelpflia, 2 Charleston,.l Quebec, 1 Lima a►►dl Bahia, 1 Bahia , 1 Mac,aio and 1 Marseilles Sugar, Demerara, 779 hhds., 40 aces; Molasses, 958 casks; Coffee, 13 bags; Cocoa, 320 bags; Rum, 96 puns. 6,7 hhds.; Cotton, Vest India, 90 bales; United State ditto, 4791 bales ; Brazil ditto, 2514 bales ; Tobacco, 24 bales; Rice, 320 tees; 'Turpentine, 1714 brie.; 4 serous ; Flaxseed, 495 bags ; Shumac, 121 bags ; Bark, Quercitrou, 147 Ithds. ; Madder, 134 casks; Madder Roots, 52 bales; Hides, 1346 No. . The wants of the trade and the firmness of holders have occasioned a further improvetnemt in Turpentine, parcels, warranted two-thirds soft, before landing, have been freely sold . at Ils. 6d. per cwt.; the total sales of the week are 1,243 barrels at 111. 6d. to I Is. 9d. per cwt. ; the holders of parcels warehoused have now almost generally with drawn them from the market, in the full expectation that a considerable improvemenewill take place, the manufac tured article, both Rosin and Spirits, being now in brisk demand at improving prices,' without a stock in the hands 'of the distiller. The sales of Tar are only 300 barrell American from the quay at 14s. to 14s. 3d. per barrel. Rosin is in brisk demand, and is now refused by the distillers ' who demand ss. 3d., bei ng f u ll o f or d ers f or two Months' delivery. The prospect of a rupture with Spain has occasioned considerable inquiry for many articles likely to be effected by such an event ; and such as rate the lowest have par ticularly attracted attention, as being the safest for invest ment. In Ashes the sales ar e 500 b arre l s new Montreal Pot at 275. 6d. 'with a very small parcel at 26;., - ;d150 barrels Pearl at 28s. to 28s. 6d.; of States' Ashes .only 10 barrels Pot have been sold at 30s. per cwt. Logwood has been in good request, and 180 tons Jamaica sold at 61. to 61. 10s. per. ton ; for Campeachy 71. 15s. to 81. is demanded: The lower qualities of Fustic have been in. quired for, and 60 tons Spanish have been sold at 6/. to 6/. 10s., with a= small parcel of Cuba at 9/. 10s. per ton.— In Nicaragua Wood there has been considerable business doing, particularly in Solid, of which 115 tons have been sold at 18/. to 191., with 70 tons wet by salt water at IW. to 171. ss. per ton. Barwood is more inquired for, and 61. 10s. refused for a considerable parcel of Gaboon ; a small sale has been effectedat 71. 15s. per ton. One hundred casks Philadelphia Quereitron Bark have been taken at 12s. per cwt. There is an improved demand for Shumac, the Sales of Sicily are about 700 bags at 105. 9d. to 111., and 100 bags Verona at 7s. 9d. per cwt. The low price of Madder Roots has attracted some attention, and a sale of .500 bales Turkey has been effected at 38.. per cwt. In Madders but little has been done. There continues a steady demand for Indigo, with-a very limited supply in'this market ; 20 serous Cttracea have been sold at Bs. to 9s. 6d. and 26 chests E. I. at Bs. 11d. to 9s. per lb., the latter in bond. Some inquiry has appeared for Lac Dye, but only 14. chests MN.'s have been sold 2 s. 7 d. per lb. The holders of Brimstone and Saltpetre are ask mg an advance of about 2/. per ton, but we cannot learn that it has been realised. One sale of 20 tons Smyrna Valo nia is.reported at 171. pet. ton.' OliVe Oil has been in better request, the sales are 24 time 'GrallipOli; at 411. a 421., and 30 tuns Sicily at 36/. 10s. a 38/. per tun. In Seed Oils little doing. Some im provement bus taken place in Cod Oil, and about 60 tuns hive beeP sold at 2.51. 10s. a 261 . per tuu; the demand for Seed Oil : his diminished, but the ptices:reain steady. The demand for Oil of Turpentine has indu ce d t h e distil lent to adV‘ance tbfq...Price- t° 5 44 PeT tun. Palm Oil has been in good iteiGA-t; kid some considerable - Wes eiTected . at 26/. a 27/. per tuft ; a small parcel has since brought price gene ra lly d e manded. 284 per tun, which is now the The ; sales of Carolina Rice are only - 79 casks, at, 20e. to 235,. per . cwt. of fair to fine quality ; and 180 bags East India at 18s. per cwt. The :transactions in Hides have been confined to 1,000 dry Odessa Ox ;and Cow at 7d. ; and about 4,000 'salted' Monte Video and Buenos Ayres ditto. The holders OtHemp are asking an advanCe of 1/. per ton, which, however, has not been realised. There has been a brisk demand for Tallow, and several parcels have changed hands; Odessa has been sold at 41s. to 426.; - old Y.C. .11s. to 421.; and new Y.C. at 425. to 435. a small sale of the latter is also reported at 445. per cwt. TRADITIONg- of the.WESTERN-lIIORLANDS. Tho progenitor of the Macleans of Coll .was a son of Puart: his name was . John, and he was denominated. garve, or athletic, from his great strength and stature. About the middle of.the 15th sentury he. obtained the island of Coll and some other lands, at an early age; but his mother having married Mac Neil of Barra, John's pas sessions were usurped by his step-father, and the young man was under the necessity of taking refuge in Ireland, —a country with which the Highlanders had then a very frequent intercourse, as it lies within a short distance, and their language and religion were at that period the same. John was kindly received by several Irish chiefs trt whom his family was known, and had the best education the country could afford. When he arrived at the age of man hood, he procured a chosen band of young adventurers , who accompanied him to,Scotland, determined: to, assist him in recovering his right, of which he had been 11400 deprived. He had information that the Lord of the Isles held a meeting of his parliament at the castle of Ardtorinish; and Macleod of Harris, his maternal uncle, being then a prisoner there, John entered the assembly completely armed, and de mended the release of Macleod. The assembly fiad intel ligence ahatiJohn had a considerable force at hand ; there fore his request was instantly complied with, and be pro ceeded to the island of Coll with all possible despatch. Mac Niel happened to have had a meeting of all his followers that day, at Grisipol ; and John, having accurate information of their situation, made a sudden attack upon his enemies, and obtained a complete victory, after twiny conspicuous acts of bravery had been performed on both sides. John that day obtained possession of his patrimony , and established a character for strength and courage which Ire always maintained thereafter. He followed uPltiS 511 C.. cess ; drove Mac Niel out of a portion of South List, which he then occupied; and erected a castle there to secure his conquest. John's prowess and conduct gained him great influence , nod he obtained from the Lord of the Isles a grant of the district of Lochiel in Lochaber, on the forfeiture of Ca meron, the former preprietor. His son retained all the territory that John had acquired, and resided chiek' 1 ‘ , " ; Lochaher. He was, however, often disturbed by the family, who frequently made - attempts to recover thew lands. At length an attack vas made on him at night ! when most of his people were absent; an d after he hl made a very brave defence, he was overpowered by thg number of the assailants and slain. Cameron of Strone, the head of a very an cient , 11d ". u " nierous tribe of that clan, was ordered by his chief to vire charge of John's young widow, who was with child. 11 ,4 was strictly commanded to put the infant to deat h sho uld it turn out to be a male ; but if a female, he had liber t Y to preserve its life. It happened that Strone's wife " 14 . 5 . in the same condition with the other lady, and ha d a dog° ter much about the same time that the widow h ad s 67; The generous and benevolent man secretly exch a ng ed children ; Coll's widow suckled the girl, and Canierr n h ; wife did the same to the boy ; and thus was preserved t t. - come very numerous and respectable. In the only male issue of that worthy family, which has since ue i time, and when circumstances permitted, Camerc",__i r Strone conducted the Lady of Coll and-her son to tn.`_ . own island, and a close alliance ever after- subsisted DE tween the family of Coll and the whole-tribe of Strone• In the ancient castle of Coll a vacancy is gill to bs a le i e n _ over the main door , in which a stone lay, vithsoPP W i t h. scribed the essential parts of this treaty. chlPlTent to bond of alliince is given by Mr. Boswell in p r , the Hebrides, where he travelled, in cotansnY or w t hat Samuel- Johnson, in 1773. It yeas from t hi , l ,fg ar Maclean of Coll bears the patronymic o ', t th i s d e y, Abrich," or " the son of .Lochaber Johe,' , a new clwi tec James the Fourth, King of Scotland, gsven order to the to Coll for the above lands, end issued an ; but i t Sheriff of Inverness-shire tort hi m f7 t r i ' s r ated. his chart Iva never accomplished. 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(.16 54 38 42 30 4 ,, n 2 5 10 2 53 0. ..d. 54 " 3 6 44 26 j ".l d• 4 ' 6 ' I ti 0 2 ° Per Bushel. a. d. a. 0. a. d. a. d. s. IL s• -n f.," 0 A4 - n 0 0 , Birrningharn......- 7 0 7 4 6 3 7 0 5 3 5 '.' a ' 0 0 . 'i t 1 r 6 ~ Bodo/in OO 05 00 0000 O i g 0 0 6 a 6 5 0 5 N Buckingham.--0, 0 2 Cheltenham ...* 06 7 I 46 5 0 3 6 i l h. 6 0 8 a o• . 0 0 0; Coventry ............. 74 80 50 68 511 ••• - 0 0 1 0 : 0 0 0. , Hereford id 9 0 0 0 00 59 1 0 0 0 . 8 0 10 * ' 0 6 .5 9 1 0 0 ,, n 0 0 0 Newcastle (Sta ff .) 90966 0 7 0 . 06901 ~ v 0 Northallerton ....... 70 80 56 59 46 ,i, 0 0 0 AA 00 n Penrith ............. 00 82 00 5 9 4n I P 300 2;1 . 0 0 2 v Shrewsbury ......... 9 1 96 7 0 76 7 - 38 6 ' - 00 - Stafford .909 0 7 6 llO 50 6 6 366 f ,',.g t 00 0° Warwick - -1 1 W0rce5ter.......... 74 80 53 06 40 - 1 13 0 Per 8011. -•' 2 i i I ° ll 1 1 1 10 ° Barnarticastle....... 11 61660612 0 6 0 ; ii 1 2 w o ~ Darlington ......... IS 0 16 010 6 11 ft 6 0 1 1 10 0 12 "„ - 0 0 .'„,- Durham ................ 130 16 ti 10 0106 8 6 7, a ' 0 0 v a, l o'' - Stanhope ..... . 1:1 0 13 9 0 0 10 0 1 2 N - : 0 0 a :0 00 Stockton --.--.. 12 6 14 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 0 - ; 0 0 '0 _____,.. Wolaingharn ..... 14 016 10 0106 1 0 ' • -------- Cal' ----•--------- I . 6rt . ' 0 MINING INTEL:TAGEI,..,CZ..d,y ..... '2,5 1 c, ,,. : 0 1 04 0 01 Y of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last 11..- . ' ........... gI 8 Average l'rodu ce ..................... ........ .. ................... . 1 . , od , ........... ........... AI" ' 1,,e, Quantity of Copt. .Average Produce.. Quantity of due Copper Amount of Sale. Z15,?05 17s. 64.--A erage On the 3d inst. , 1 y of Killer lei' the the H o n. at prri ß pect lß_T h H o S i ; Thomas Browne, of a daughter. Ora l ‘' P' On the 12th inst., at Woolwich, the Ladiof /%lajor t of a daughter. 000 0 ' ( in the lbth inst., the daub of Mr. James Abbot t, 1 : 1 1 Castle-court, Strind, of a g r, being the 12th ehil ,ld• n or On the 16th inst., in Bryanston-square, Lady Elisabetnv mond, of a daughter. -------"-_, ' near Kdlart ~ II ItfARRIED. or° On the 14th inch , at Chichester , Capt. Edwar dof Vil SethiPe°loo Royal Artillery , to Elisabeth Jaliana, daughter ' Esq. of Tortington-house, Susses , be" t 'I I° On the 14th inst., at MI Soule' Church , Langlism-lhececrtote eldest son Of a Chichester, Esq. of Hall, Devon. r e '' py 18. only daughter of the late Col. Henry .lason, of th e ' v draa Establishment , P l' ,- ~, I tii On the 12th inst., at Totness, George T. W' l " 3 4 " t s n ottel',l only son of the late T. Williamson, Esq. of 4iehm""' l'A' 31ergaret, eldest daughter of William Doidge Ta""1°11' Tobin's. , - - DIED. CI N ir On the 13th ins t., at Rathmines, the Right f u n. L"' Brock, of Clonbrock, In the county of Gal Way. . poi!: On the 15th inst. at an advanced age, at bis residanee,w, , ~,bi, , geld, Thomas Bonham, E.sq., a pntlenian of greet ves4ii",o hl. deitands to the family of the Diernber fur Portainontb, Je" ter, Esq. nr li‘ % ' a t the Suit--; printed awl FnLlfslir i by Al. vou sANGso. z4;O, 11 e, Si